Telegraph, establishment of, 158; wages paid for work on wilderness lines of, 159, 193; spiders swarm on, 239
Telegraphic Commission, 157, 165, 181, 210; work of, 217; Juruena first mapped by, 220; labor of, 327; solution of River of Doubt mystery made possible by previous work of, 348
Wilderness, party enters the, 209; difficulties of travel in, 215; etiquette of the, 240; first stage of conquest of the, 334; geographical and zoological work still to be done in the, Appendix A, 358
Zahm, Father, 1, 2, 5; children baptized by, 57; 132; Colonel Roosevelt reminded of his wish to shoot tapir and jaguar by, 144; 162, 186, 205; returns to Tapirapoan, 207
Zoologist, work of field, in South America, Appendix A, 353, 358